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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers kicked off the final leg of the 40th Anniversary tour at the third annual KAABOO music festival at the Del Mar Fairgrounds outside San Diego.

Headlining Sunday night, Tom and the band topped a star-studded three-day lineup that included performances from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Muse, Alannis Morrisette, The Wallflowers, Jane’s Addiciton, Weezer and Jackson Browne, to name just a few.

Fresh off a two-week break, Tom and the guys brought the energy early with a buzzing “Forgotten Man” that led nicely into “I Won’t

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Standing in the hallway outside of his dressing room backstage at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, CA on Friday night, Tom Petty smiled widely as his head bobbed to the beat of “Rebel Heart,” the first single off opening band The Shelters’ debut album released last year.

The young Los Angeles rock four-piece aren’t strangers to the Heartbreaker camp, having opened the shows on last year’s Mudcrutch tour, but the connection runs deeper than simply serving as an opening act.

On February 17-19, 1977, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers played three sold-out shows at The Keystone, the legendary rock club in downtown Berkeley played by the likes of Jerry Garcia, Ray Charles, The Talking Heads, The Ramones, Metallica and B.B King, among many more.

It was the start of the band’s first cross-country tour supporting their debut album, and the Keystone shows were the springboard, hurtling the band east to shows in the Midwest, East Coast and, ultimately, Europe.

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers played the back-end of their summer baseball park doubleheader Saturday, packing more than 42,000 fans into Seattle’s Safeco Field for a two-hour-plus, career-spanning concert that culminated with a fireworks show above the stage following the final note of “American Girl.”

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers started the home stretch of the 40th Anniversary tour in Vancouver on Thursday, rocking a sold-out Rogers Arena with opening act, The Lumineers.

Welcomed to the stage with a deafening standing ovation, Tom and the guys showed no rust following a two-week break after their last show in Philadelphia, stretching out on many songs throughout the two-hour-plus show with extended solos from Tom, Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench.

On August 28 & 29, 1964, The Beatles played two shows at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium. Tickets for both shows were sold out, and the 15,983 screaming fans were kept from the stage by an eight-foot high fence topped with barbed wire. The Fab Four arrived by helicopter and played their standard 12-song set from the ’64 U.S. tour.

53 years later, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers walked onto the same stage at the recently revived former home of the U.S.

“Before I go, Tom, I gotta tell you one thing,” Peter Wolf said standing in Tom’s dressing room about half an hour before the Heartbreakers were scheduled to take the stage at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. “Everybody on this tour - from the rest of the guys in the Heartbreakers to your production team, backline guys, sound and lighting crews to the truck drivers – has been incredible.

“They’ve helped us feel comfortable and welcomed in so many ways, and I gotta believe that’s ‘cause it starts at the top.

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